title: [Strategy for promoting evidence-based nursing practice in hospital].
abstract: Evidence-based practice has been demonstrated to improve quality of care, increase patients' satisfaction, and reduce the costs of medical care. Therefore, evidence-based practice is now central to the clinical decision-making process and to achieving better quality of care. Today, it is one of the important indicators of core competences for healthcare providers and accreditation for healthcare and educational systems. Further, evidence-based practice encourages in-school and continuous education programs to integrate evidence-based elements and concepts into curricula. Healthcare facilities and professional organizations proactively host campaigns and encourage healthcare providers to participate in evidence-based related training courses. However, the clinical evidence-based practice progress is slow. The general lack of a model for organizational follow-up may be a key factor associated with the slow adoption phenomenon. The authors provide a brief introduction to the evidence-based practice model, then described how it may be successfully translated through a staged process into the evidence-based practices of organizational cultures. This article may be used as a reference by healthcare facilities to promote evidence-based nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan, ROC. ycchen@vghtpe.gov.tw.
authors.forename: Yu-Chih
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lee-Chun
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Shin-Shang
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chou
mesh_terms: D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans
keywords: evidence-based healthcare; evidence-based nursing practice; mentorship